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Re:The nature of our experience of reality remains elusive by quotemstr on Saturday July 21, 2018 @12:53PM (#17582630)
Sure, and they also used a geocentric model of the solar system. Should we weigh our certainty of the truth of the heliocentric model the same as they weighed the truth of the geocentric model despite our vastly superior scientific methodology and body of evidence?
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Re:The nature of our experience of reality remains elusive by BalinKing on Saturday July 21, 2018 @12:59PM (#17582660)
True, but we don’t have nearly the same amount of evidence for the nature of consciousness as we do for the structure of the solar system... instead, we’re relying largely on philosophy and “self-evident” facts.
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Re:The nature of our experience of reality remains elusive by fiatjaf on Saturday July 21, 2018 @12:58PM (#17582655)
You only think you know so much because you don't know what you don't know.

For example, a "model" cannot be "true". A model is a model, reality is a different thing.

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Re:The nature of our experience of reality remains elusive by akvadrako on Saturday July 21, 2018 @01:11PM (#17582707)
You don't know that. Models could be just as real as non-models, whatever those are.
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Re:The nature of our experience of reality remains elusive by fiatjaf on Saturday July 21, 2018 @01:27PM (#17582782)
You are right, but I'm not talking about this and you know it. I was saying that this gentleman, quotemstr, is confusing and mixing the model with the reality that it is trying to model.
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Re:The nature of our experience of reality remains elusive by quotemstr on Saturday July 21, 2018 @01:20PM (#17582743)
Platonist.
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